Remington is making it difficult not to own some or all versions of their Ultra Mag cartridges by offering a $639 Model 700 SPS, chambered for the both 7mm and 300 Remington Ultra Mag cartridges, the XCR II, with an MSRP of $970, also chambered for the 7mm and 300, […]

The 7mm Remington Ultra Mag is currently the largest production 7mm magnum, surpassing in capacity even the 7mm Shooting Times Western that is based on a full length .375 H&H case and the popular 7mm-300 Weatherby wildcat. However, for those familiar with the feel of shooting the original belted case […]

One of the reasons larger magnums are less frequently the subject of articles appearing on Real Guns these days, as opposed to more general application cartridges, is that the typical cost of big magnum ownership tends to limit the number of people who shoot them… and who read about them. […]

In ancient days of street racing, it was a lot easier to hustle a race with a plain, white, 1964 Plymouth Savoy, hiding a full up 426 Hemi, than it was with a shiny, new, big block Corvette. Headers capped, slicks in the trunk, seats and floor buried under hamburger […]

As a gun geek, I’ll sometimes buy a handgun for the sole reason it’s fun to shoot or because it has an interesting design. As a practical matter, I also believe in the use of handguns for self-defense. I’ve been around long enough to know that both interests are not […]

  OK, I confess, initially I just wanted to hang a good-looking enclosed dot sight on my Mini-Thirty but then, as a practical matter, the Weaver Red/Green Dot sight turned out to be an excellent choice. The gun already had a Burris FastFire II on a bridged Picatinny mount in […]

  When I worked for a living… yes, I really did work for a living and within a corporate environment, there was a term for advertising and product literature where the will of a marketing department’s creative folks took precedence over the presentation of a product – “Art Director’s Revenge”. […]

A number reloading manuals are now dated, so it was nice to see Hornady step up with an 8th edition. One question that follows the release of a new handloading manual is whether or not it includes a sufficient amount of new information to make it worthwhile. In this case […]

Some writers are ex-championship sharpshooters and/or accomplished and world famous hunters, but that would not be me. If I want to do right by a product and avoid concluding with, “The rifle would not shoot better than 18″ groups at 100 yards”, I need to set up so I can […]

Not long ago, we constructed a project where the subject rifle was a Mini Mauser with quick change barrel capability. One barrel was chambered for the .30 Remington AR, a cartridge Remington developed for their R-15 series rifles, another barrel was chambered for the 7mm-30RG, a RealGuns’ designed wildcat that […]